Our present Minister of Education says that history teaching ought to give "discipline in practical reasoning" and "help in forming judgements," not merely in remembering facts.

Indeed he went so far as to say "eliminate dates and facts" by which, of course, he only meant that the power of reasoning, the power of forming judgements is of far more consequence than the mere possession of any quantity of facts and dates.

It will teach me not to form rash judgements.

To escape from the eternal personal judgements which make a school a place of torment is to walk upon air.

It must not be forgotten that the very principle of the League, if its judgements are to take effect, involves a world-war in cases where a strong minority resists those judgements.

It must not be forgotten that the very principle of the League, if its judgements are to take effect, involves a world-war in cases where a strong minority resists those judgements.

The Governor was extremely reluctant to comply with this demand, as he well knew how cruel and how summary were the judgements of the native Chiefs; and he, as well as the whole of the colony, felt a regard for Squanto, notwithstanding his folly and his errors.

It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.

A little time will determine whether I have deceived others, or myself: and I think it is no very unreasonable request, that men would please to suspend their judgements till then.

Annus Tenebrosus, or the Dark Year, or Astrological Judgements upon two Lunary Eclipses, and one admirable Eclipse of the Sun in England 1652.

Shall these be judgements great enough for one That dares not write thee an Encomion?

'Tis like your snivelling cant to write sweet psalms for smuggling rogues and try to frighten honest men with your judgements.

And consequently, in saying that Russia ought to be vigilantly watched in that quarter, I am only applying to her the rule which in parallel circumstances I feel convinced ought to be applied, and would be justly applied, to judgements upon our own country.

Judgements are about us thoroughly; O'er all Enfield hangs the Cholera, Savage monster, none like him Ever rack'd a human limb. Pest, nor plague, nor fever yellow, Has made patients more to bellow.

Judgements are about us thoroughly, 112.

It is true, the judgements of men are fallible, and many opinions are liable to be reversed by better knowledge: but what has been long established by the unanimous concurrence of the learned, it can hardly be the part of a wise instructor now to dispute.

"It is certain, that we believe our own judgements more firmly, after we have made a thorough inquiry into the things.

"Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgements.

Social judgements in statute and common law, by George Clarke Cox.

Social judgements in statute and common law, by George Clarke Cox.

But God did not utterly leave me, but followed me with judgements, yet such as were mixed with mercy.

By turns rough and kind, harsh and covetous on the surface, but capable of offering his whole fortune to his exiled masterswho did him the honor of accepting it for a few daysno man ever gave rise to such contradictory judgements.

This play was never liked, unlesse by few That brought their judgements with um, for of late First the infection, then the common prate Of common people, have such customes got Either to silence plaies, or like them not.

I could see it stretching through the space and silence of that vast land, its servants in every village, its paths and roads all leading back to the central citadel, its whispered orders flying through the air from district to district, its judgements, its rewards, its sins, its virtues, resting upon a basis of superstition and ignorance and apathy, the three sure friends of autocracy through history!

He had never been a man for much contact with his fellow-beings, he had been aloof and reserved, generous in his judgements of others, severe and narrow in his judgement of himself.